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India’s farm sector performed well despite COVID-19, says Tomar
India has launched various projects under the National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture to develop, demonstrate and disseminate the techniques to make agriculture resilient to adverse impacts of climate change, union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said adding that India is promoting organic farming at a large scale.
”The agriculture sector in India performed well during the severe COVID-19 pandemic and registered an all-time high production of 305 million tonne of foodgrains as well as their exports (in 2020-21), contributing to the global food security,” he added.
Delta plus variant of COVID-19 is not yet ”variant of concern”: Govt
Indian scientists: We didn’t back doubling of vaccine dosing gap
Twitter loses intermediary status over non-compliance with new rules
“The provisions for significant social media intermediaries under the Rules have already come into force on May 26 2021 and it has been more than a week but Twitter has refused to comply with the provisions of these Rules. Needless to state, such non-compliance will lead to unintended consequences including Twitter losing exemption from liability as intermediary available under section 79 of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000. This has clearly been provided under rule 7 of the aforesaid Rules,” it said.
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AIG swings to loss, hit by catastrophes and volatile market
The company’s general insurance unit reported an underwriting loss of $1.1 billion, compared with a loss of $846 million a year ago, largely due to Hurricane Michael and the California wildfires.Still, AIG said its general insurance accident year combined ratio – which excludes changes from losses incurred in past years – was 98.8 for the quarter, compared with 100.2 a year ago.
Google, Amazon expanding smart home device data gathering
The commercial success of voice assistants has bolstered dozens of companies working to build interest in internet-enabled televisions, kitchen appliances and other devices. Many people first start tinkering with connected appliances after buying a smart speaker. Surveys show about a quarter of U.S. smart speaker owners regularly use them to control something else, a percentage analysts expect to rise.
US Bill would require secondary cockpit door on all existing airplanes
No one’s safe: Bezos nude selfie leak triggers alarm for all billionaires
“The perception among very affluent people is often ‘I have this level of wealth, I’m untouchable,’’ said Mark Johnson, chief executive officer of Sovereign Intelligence, a McLean, Virginia-based risk analytics firm. “But the systems they have in place for protecting their personal identifiable information are very weak.”
Ultra-wealthy individuals are particularly susceptible because so much of their data are often centralized through family offices, which typically lack the robust firewalls and encryption capabilities of banks and large corporations.
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